Sediment in my wine bottles?

[Crazed_Knives]

So I brewed a 3 gallon batch of mead for 6-7 months and bottled that sucker up. A few weeks later, I noticed sediment starting to form. What did I do wrong? I added the right amount of yeast, honey, water and pollen.

 

[Kdog22]

You added that stuff right before you bottled or that were the ingredients? It is possible that sediment was agitated or kicked up during your bottling process.

 

[Crazed_Knives]

yea, the carboy was moved quite a bit.

We brewed it in the bucket for 2-3 weeks, then transferred into a carboy for 3 months then into another carboy for 3 months to leave all the sediment behind.

 

[fatbloke]

Ergo mead with sediment floating shouldn't be bottled.

In fact, after 2 or 3, possibly 4 rackings, even the smallest amount of sediment should be racked away and then possibly racked into a bottling bucket and even then maybe bottling with the pipe attached to a gravity filter etc etc......

Sounds over the top ? Mate, I've had a few batches even vacuum racked with a 1 micron filter and be virtually gin clear, still seem to drop a dark brown pigment/tannin type sediment, and have to then rebottle through a 0.5 micron filter.......

If it aint clear, it aint ready. You'd moan like hell if you bought something that turned out to have sediment in it, so if you gave some away and your recipient moaned about the same, no surprise......

 

[Kdog22]

yea, the carboy was moved quite a bit.

We brewed it in the bucket for 2-3 weeks, then transferred into a carboy for 3 months then into another carboy for 3 months to leave all the sediment behind.

What seems to help me is moving my carboys to the bottling location a couple days before I bottle in order to give a little time for sediment to re-settle rather than moving the carboy and bottling right afterwards. But I normally don't keep racking as many times as I could have, either. There always seems to be at least a tiny bit of sediment on the bottom of my batches when I bottle. But the above seems to help at least a little bit.